Yahoo! App and 360 Importer

June 5, 2009

Mike Adams

We’ve got two Yahoo! related news items today.

The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools → Import) to make migration from 360 to WordPress.com super easy. Just upload the Yahoo! 360 export ZIP file, and we’ll do the rest. Yahoo! will be shutting down their 360 service soon, so if you have any friends over there feel free to give them a little help and encouragement to head over to WordPress.com 🙂

Second is the release of our WordPress.com QuickPress Yahoo! Application. You can post posts and read and moderate your most recent comments straight from My Yahoo!. (Note to any self-hosted WordPress.org folks out there: the app currently only works on WordPress.com. We’re working on making it .com/.org universal.)

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I think that’s great, although I’m still having trouble posting to my blog from my yahoo mail. I know it’s still new and i should be a little patient, but i’m greedy. I want more more more. I’m still hungry for the hopeful intergration between org and MU.

I’m a wordpress groupie, but just work the kinks out between yahoo and posting and i’ll be almost a little happier.

Interesting I suppose, but of limited relevance unless you use Yahoo a lot. Most of my posts are far too long and involve too much formatting for shortcuts anyway. Instead of working out import tools, perhaps you could add a way to set the editor to indent the first line of each paragraph or accept tabs instead of treating it as a “next item” key? That would be useful to quite a few people and would seem fairly uncomplicated to implement.

Ya, such a super good news that finally we may out from there…BUT sadly our data seem jam over there, email never arrive to download our data still stuck with it but always happy to move to wordpress 🙂

Pretty cool you support importing Yahoo!360 blogs. Unfortunately their export app is pretty crappy and loses quite some data in the process (formatting, the names of the people who commented, etc.). I’m working on a tool to export an Yahoo~360 blog while preserving more data. I hope it’ll be fairly usable in a couple of weeks.

thanx mdawaffe!
love the flicker! [know it’s yahoo]
hate the yahoo as they sniched on some chinese clients of theirs to the authorities
and guess what happened to them….
bastards!

you have to change yr avitar! it looks like you have deleted yr face! – we might think you have self mutilation issues 🙂
unless my monitor is set to dark and you have a paper bag on yr head!
that’s koowl

I like this Yahoo! relationship thing. I don’t know much about it really, but sure glad it’s not the Icarus-ish “Google” relationship thingy.

I am becoming the paranoid android that I used to make fun of two years ago. I am blogging my detangling ordeal w/google at memesist.wordpress When I stopped to really think about it, I concluded that they knew waaaaay tooooo much about me and my family. Google is my new WalMart. Something to avoid.

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I am rather gutted that Yahoo has decided to shut down its Yahoo!360 blogging/social networking site as I am also on it as well as WordPress etc on the internet services that I am on.Off course you can visit my WordPress blogsite and see on my blogroll the sites you can link up with.It is to be hoped that all my fellow Yahoo!360 ers can join forces via WordPress etc and use this as a base for organising ourselves.I would also like WordPress to serve as a device where if Yahoo decides to revive the Yahoo!360 platform then we should have our blogging archives on WordPress to restore our Yahoo!360 sites.

I only wish Yahoo had assisted you over a year ago when I (and many other Yahoo 360 exiles) asked for this. I am still transferring my photos from my Y360 blog one by one here — since the only importer I could find did not include the pics. Well at least it is now available for the remaining 360 refugees that haven’t already found another blogging home.

Just to say the importer worked well for me. I brought across 50 blogs from Yahoo360, which came complete with caption pics and comments. I did need to re-size the pics (individually) and add tags to each of the blogs. And so far, external links to pics, within the html has not transferred well. Shame one can’t import one’s friends, the messages in and outbox and the historic top of page comments, but that would have been the icing on the cake.

The transfer process was relatively painless and I am hoping that the community over here will be half as good as it was in Yahoo360.

I found out a few days ago about 360 closing and had only been blogging since Jan. 10th. I had just started feeling comfortable and misread my e-mail and thought it was closing on June 12th {really will be on July 12th} and almost went into a panic and jumped at the invite to move to WordPress with easy instructions….. all of this is very new for me and the move went very well. Still have things to work out and learn….. been working on it myself for now but may yet need some help. I had never heard of WordPress and if I had not panicked like I did I may not have made the move to WordPress….. but now… I am so glad I panicked… I have found such neat stuff….. lol…. I hear some of you lol at me… but that’s OK…. I’m new at this and I’m lol with ya at me….. heck right now my loose lip green cheek is even lol at me……. Thanks WordPress for the big save! This is so much better than 360 ……… Lila

Yahoo 360 was one of those services that allowed users to customise the look and feel of their blogs, which a lot of users on 360 are very particular about, having put real time and effort into giving their blogs the look they preferred. WordPress.com does not offer that kind of functionality, limiting customization to the act of choosing off of a limit set of templates.

You might be about to get a large number of very unhappy campers, who’d probably be much better served over on Blogger. Unless there was some system upgrade I didn’t know about?